Ke An

25.3k total citations · 16 hit papers
425 papers, 20.2k citations indexed

About

Ke An is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ke An has authored 425 papers receiving a total of 20.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 241 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 232 papers in Materials Chemistry and 89 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ke An's work include High Entropy Alloys Studies (66 papers), High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (60 papers) and Shape Memory Alloy Transformations (49 papers). Ke An is often cited by papers focused on High Entropy Alloys Studies (66 papers), High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (60 papers) and Shape Memory Alloy Transformations (49 papers). Ke An collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Ke An's co-authors include Yan Chen, Xiongjun Liu, Hui Wang, Zhaoping Lü, Hailong Huang, Junyang He, T.G. Nieh, Peter K. Liaw, Jonathan D. Poplawsky and Mingwei Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ke An

409 papers receiving 19.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A precipitation-hardened high-entropy alloy with outstanding tensile properties

2015 2.2k citations Ke An et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Enhanced strength and ductility in a high-entropy alloy via ordered oxygen complexes

2018 1.4k citations Suihe Jiang, Ke An et al. profile →
Gas–solid interfacial modification of oxygen activity in layered oxide cathodes for lithium-ion batteries

2016 643 citations Yan Chen, Ke An et al. Nature Communications profile →
Gradient cell–structured high-entropy alloy with exceptional strength and ductility

2021 575 citations Rui Feng, Ke An et al. profile →
Phase‐Transformation Ductilization of Brittle High‐Entropy Alloys via Metastability Engineering

2017 568 citations Ke An, Wei Wu et al. profile →
Efficient Direct Recycling of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes by Targeted Healing

2020 538 citations Yan Chen, Ke An et al. profile →
Strong yet ductile nanolamellar high-entropy alloys by additive manufacturing

2022 485 citations Yan Chen, Jonathan D. Poplawsky et al. profile →
Lattice distortion in a strong and ductile refractory high-entropy alloy

2018 473 citations Chanho Lee, Gian Song et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Bifunctional nanoprecipitates strengthen and ductilize a medium-entropy alloy

2021 246 citations Ying Yang, Jonathan D. Poplawsky et al. profile →
Lattice‐Distortion‐Enhanced Yield Strength in a Refractory High‐Entropy Alloy

2020 234 citations Chanho Lee, Yi Chou et al. profile →
Improving the oxygen redox reversibility of Li-rich battery cathode materials via Coulombic repulsive interactions strategy

2022 220 citations Ke An et al. Nature Communications profile →
High-throughput design of high-performance lightweight high-entropy alloys

2021 216 citations Rui Feng, Michael C. Gao et al. Nature Communications profile →
Superior High‐Temperature Strength in a Supersaturated Refractory High‐Entropy Alloy

2021 183 citations Rui Feng, Michael C. Gao et al. profile →
Strength can be controlled by edge dislocations in refractory high-entropy alloys

2021 175 citations Chanho Lee, Francesco Maresca et al. Nature Communications profile →
Enhancing fatigue life by ductile-transformable multicomponent B2 precipitates in a high-entropy alloy

2021 168 citations Rui Feng, Dunji Yu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Atomic faulting induced exceptional cryogenic strain hardening in gradient cell–structured alloy

2023 102 citations Rui Feng, Ke An et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Neutron diffraction analysis of residual stress distribution in the lubricant-free TR-AFSD AA7075 repair coupled with SPH simulations 2025 ·Journal of Advanced Joining Processes ·(unknown), (unknown), Kirk Fraser, Dunji Yu, Yan Chen, Ke An, Luke N. Brewer, Paul Allison, J.B. Jordon	6
2	Unraveling Materials Synthesis Mechanisms Using In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy and Neutron Scattering 2025 ·Chemical Reviews ·(unknown), Hwangsun Kim, Ke An, Yan Chen, Ondrej Dyck, Kate Reidy, Miaofang Chi	0
3	Deformation Behaviors in Single BCC‐Phase Refractory Multi‐Principal Element Alloys under Dynamic Conditions 2025 ·Advanced Science ·(unknown), (unknown), Dongyue Xie, (unknown), Chia‐Yi Wu, (unknown), Leeseung Kang, Shuozhi Xu, Barton C. Prorok, Dong‐Joo Kim, Marc A. Meyers, Haixuan Xu, Peter K. Liaw, Yi‐Chia Chou, Ke An, (unknown), Nan Li, Gian Song, Saryu Fensin	2
4	Thermochemical interactions between Ca2Sm8(SiO4)6O2 apatite and molten calcium–magnesium-aluminosilicate (CMAS) 2024 ·Ceramics International ·Narottam P. Bansal, Ke An, Wayne D. Jennings, Gustavo Costa	1
5	Effects of hydrogen on the evolution of 4130 steel microstructure as a result of tensile loading 2024 ·International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ·(unknown), May L. Martin, Damian S. Lauria, Jason P. Killgore, Peter E. Bradley, Yan Chen, Ke An, Matthew Connolly	0
6	Deciphering the multiple deformation mechanisms responsible for sustained work hardening in a FeCrCoNi medium entropy alloy 2023 ·International Journal of Plasticity ·Weicheng Zhong, (unknown), Haixuan Xu, Ke An, Albina Y. Borisevich, (unknown), E.P. George, Ying Yang	27
7	Adaptive sampling for accelerating neutron diffraction-based strain mapping ^* 2023 ·Machine Learning Science and Technology ·Singanallur Venkatakrishnan, Chris M. Fancher, Maxim Ziatdinov, Rama K. Vasudevan, Kyle Saleeby, James Haley, Dunji Yu, Ke An, Alex Plotkowski	4
8	Effects of mechanical deformation on dislocation density and phase partitioning in 4130 steel 2023 ·Materials Science and Engineering A ·(unknown), Matthew Connolly, May L. Martin, Damian S. Lauria, Jason P. Killgore, Peter E. Bradley, Yan Chen, Ke An, Andrew J. Slifka	4
9	In-situ neutron diffraction investigation of two-stage martensitic transformation in a 13%Mn steel with serrated deformation 2022 ·Materials Science and Engineering A ·Feng Li, Pengfei Gao, Yan Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Peng Wan, Weijian Chen, Tao Kang, Zhengzhi Zhao, Ke An	5
10	Long- and short-range orders in 10-component compositionally complex ceramics 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Dawei Zhang, Yan Chen, Heidy Vega, Tianshi Feng, Dunji Yu, Michelle Everett, Jöerg C. Neuefeind, Ke An, Renkun Chen, Jian Luo	15
11	Fatigue Behavior and Mechanisms of High-Entropy Alloys 2022 ·OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Rui Feng, Ke An, Peter K. Liaw	6
12	Load shuffling during creep deformation of an additively manufactured AlCuMnZr alloy 2022 ·Acta Materialia ·Richard A. Michi, Sumit Bahl, Chris M. Fancher, Kevin Sisco, Lawrence F. Allard, Ke An, Dunji Yu, Ryan Dehoff, Alex Plotkowski, Amit Shyam	22
13	Plastic and low-cost axial zero thermal expansion alloy by a natural dual-phase composite 2021 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Kun Lin, Suihe Jiang, Yili Cao, Wenjie Li, Yilin Wang, Yan Chen, Ke An, Youyong Li, Kenichi Kato, Qiang Li, Jun Chen, Jinxia Deng, Xianran Xing	46
14	Strength can be controlled by edge dislocations in refractory high-entropy alloys breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Chanho Lee, Francesco Maresca, Rui Feng, Yi Chou, T. Ungár, Michael Widom, Ke An, Jonathan D. Poplawsky, Yi‐Chia Chou, Peter K. Liaw, W.A. Curtin	175
15	Effects of Zr addition on lattice strains and electronic structures of NbTaTiV high-entropy alloy 2021 ·Materials Science and Engineering A ·Chanho Lee, Gian Song, Michael C. Gao, Lizhi Ouyang, Ke An, Saryu Fensin, Peter K. Liaw	21
16	In situ investigation of stress-induced martensitic transformation in granular shape memory ceramic packings 2019 ·Acta Materialia ·Hunter A. Rauch, Yan Chen, Ke An, Hang Z. Yu	23
17	Elucidating the mobility of H⁺and Li⁺ions in (Li_6.25−xH_xAl_0.25)La₃Zr₂O₁₂viacorrelative neutron and electron spectroscopy 2019 ·Energy & Environmental Science ·Xiaoming Liu, Yan Chen, Zachary D. Hood, Cheng Ma, Seungho Yu, Asma Sharafi, Hui Wang, Ke An, Jeff Sakamoto, Donald J. Siegel, Yongqiang Cheng, Niina Jalarvo, Miaofang Chi	65
18	Applying neutron transmission physics and 3D statistical full-field model to understand 2D Bragg-edge imaging 2018 ·Journal of Applied Physics ·Qingge Xie, Gian Song, (unknown), A. D. Stoica, Balasubramaniam Radhakrishnan, Jean-Christophe Bilheux, Michael Kirka, Ryan Dehoff, Hassina Bilheux, Ke An	8
19	Understanding low-cycle fatigue life improvement mechanisms in a pre-twinned magnesium alloy 2015 ·Journal of Alloys and Compounds ·Wei Wu, Ke An	37
20	High-Temperature Indentation of Natural Diamond and the Quest for Lonsdaleite 1995 ·MRS Proceedings ·P. Pirouz, Ke An, X. J. Ning, J. Yang, S.Q. Xiao	1

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